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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN One thousand dollars for the care of his parrot was provided in the will of the late Thomas li. Whitney, former for-mer hotel owner of California and Oregon, on file at Portland, Oregon. Heavyweight hns have a mark to shoot at to beat the record made at Los Angeles by a Khodo Island Hod belonging to Mrs. Wilson Lapman. The fowl laid an egg more than thr&e inches long and weighing in excess of six ounces, an acievement which the owner say8 has not been equaled in any American barnyard tills season. Timber to the amount of $37,029,000 feet, valued at .$27,000, was removed from the national forests of the in-termountain in-termountain district, including Utah, Idaho, Nevada and sections of Arizona Ari-zona and Wyoming, during 1923, according ac-cording to a statistical report made public at the district forestry office at Ogden, Utah. This timber was given free to settlers and citizens, nnd a total of 11,570 persons were bonefiled. Frank Steunenberg, martyred Idaho governor, will be commemorated commem-orated by a monument to be erected In the triangle immediately in front of the state capitol, according accord-ing to plans announced following a meeting of the Steunenberg memorial commission. Approximately $35,000 will be expended for the monument of which $20,000 is expected to be raised by popular subscription. The State Highway Commission at their last meeting, held in Cheyenne, awarded the contract for the 20 bridges on the new stretch of highway high-way between Big Piney and Kem-merer, Kem-merer, Wyoming. The successful bhlder was James Turpin of Wheatland, Wheat-land, who had just recently comnleteil a job for the commission up state. Arrangements have been completed complet-ed for destroying approximately 3000 cattle and G000 hogs in five counties in California under foot and mouth disease quarantine. Although Monterey Mon-terey county was placed under quarantine quar-antine with Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa and Solano counties, G. H. Hecke of the state department of agriculture reported that "the progress prog-ress of the epidemic appears to have been checked." GENERAL Fifty-two years after his graduation the Rev. Arthur Jared Benedict of Cochise, Ariz., has been awarded a majority athletic "A" at Amherst college. He is the sole surviving member of the varsity crew of 1S72 the year of his graduation. A fast express train on the Santa Fe railroad was held up recently by a Sing Sing prison convict held up for forty minutes while a surgeon performed an operation that probably saved the prisoner's life. Six Parien firemen who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit statu tory arson were given prison and jail sentences at Bridgeport, Conn., by Judge Allyn Brown. One man was killed and a 17-year old boy seriously wounded when officers of-ficers fired into a mob which stormed the Angelina county jail at Lufkin. Texas, in an effort to get Booker T. Williams, negro, held in connection with the murder of Andy Sulzer at a sawmill commissary five miles south of Lufkin Tuesday night. Sir Esme Howard arrived on the Olympic en route to Washington to assume the British ambassadorship vacated two months ago by the retirement re-tirement of Sir Auckland Geddes. After attending SS. Bartholomew's church for more than half a century Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Sr., now is going to St. Thomas church at New York and has applied for two sats there. Both churches are rrotestant Episcopal. ' The first of the citizens' military training camps to be help in 1924 will open June 12 at Fort Douglas. Utah, the Military Training Camps association associa-tion has announced. Chairman Ben W. Hooper of the United States railway labor board announced at Chicago that he will not Ve a candidate for reelection. WASHINGTON Protest against the granting by the iiueistate commerce commission of applications by certain railroads for lower transcontinental rates was made in a resolution adopted by the shipping 1, aril, on the ground that it woidd divert to the roads shipments now carried ,y water carriers through the Panama canal. A report signed by Attorney General Gen-eral Iiaugherty, reviewing steps taken tak-en l'iy the federal government to enforce en-force the antitrust laws, was sent to the senate by the department of justice jus-tice in response to a resolution of inquiry. The wheat stabilization bill by Senator Sen-ator GiMiiling, Itepublican, Idaho, was reported from the senate agriculture committee without recommendation, ft provides for a wheat stabilizing corporation to purchase grain at a guaranteed price, based on $1.50 a bushel for No. 1 northern, whenever the market falls below that level. Imports of wheat and flour would be prohibited. Attorney General Daugherty will remain for the present a member of President Coolidges' cabinet, but he will be expected to retire to private life as soon as the senate has completed com-pleted its inquiry into his administration administra-tion of the department of justice. The proposed Alameda naval base was recommended to the house naval committee by Rear Admiral Moffett, chief of aeronautics, who desired a better site for an air station than Mare Island navy yard. Postmaster nominated by President Coolidge included Wesley A. Hill, Eureka, Eu-reka, Oil. ; Arthur B. Bean, Pocatello, Idaho, and Peter W. Mcltoberts, Twin Falls, Id-dio. Farmers in the drought-stricken areas of New Mexico would receive advances from the federal government govern-ment aggregating $1,000,000 to aid them during the coming crop season under a resolution adopted by the senate. The advances would be made by the secretary of agriculture, would be limited to $G per acre, and would constitute a lien on the coming crop. Twenty-six awards totaling $138,-S22.40, $138,-S22.40, of which twelve aggregating $17,125.26 were in the Lusitania group, were announced by the Ger-man-Americim mixed claims commission commis-sion in favor of American claimants against Germany. the interior appropriation bill, the first of the big supply measures, was passed Tuesday by the senate. The measure now goes to conference. The senate appropriations committee added about $1,700,000 to it as it was approved by the house, and the senate sen-ate increased this by another $700,-000, $700,-000, of which $150,000 is for the Boise, Idaho, reclamation project and $250,000 for the Yuma, Ariz., project. The total as it passed the senate was $204,000,000. FOREIGN Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow of the former American president, left Paris for Chateau Thierry to visit the grave of her son, Quentin, who was killed while serving as an aviator avia-tor in July 1918. She was accompanied accom-panied by her son, Kermit. Watler Lincoln, said to have been a grandnephew of Abraham Lincoln, died at Honolulu after a brief illness. He was 92 years old and had lived in Hawaii more than fifty years. He was a contractor. The three army airplanes which left Balboa, Canal Zone on February 4 for a flight to Guatemala City and return arrived at France field success fully completing the trip of more than 2000 miles. At no time during the journey was serious trouble experienced, ex-perienced, depite the fact that much of the flying was over uncharted regions. re-gions. The Belgium cabinet headed by Premier Theunis have resigned as a result of its defeat in the cnamber of deputies. 95 to 79. over the Franco-Belgian Franco-Belgian economic convention. According to the correspondent of the Berliner Tageblatt at Speyer, capital of the Bavarian palatinate, the last of the separatists have evacuated evacu-ated the government building there, which will be occupied by representatives representa-tives of the ''old legitimate" government govern-ment forthwith. The federal forces under General Luis Gutierrez, Juan Espinoza Cordoba Cordo-ba and Juan Pablo Macias occupied Tuxpam without resistance last Tuesday. Tues-day. Former Field Marshal Ludendorff, Adolph Hitler, leader of the Bavarian Fascisti, and seven other defendants were placed on trial at Munich for their connection with the putsch of last November. All of the defendants except one are charged with high treason. |